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the experience of reading in Britain, from 1450 to 1945...

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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1600-1699" ... Lady Anne [Clifford] ... read Robert Parsons's Resolutions, Thomas Sorocold's Supplications of Saints, a 'lady's book of praise of a solitary life,' and a 'book of ...Lady Anne Clifford "book of the preaparation to the sarament"Print: Book
1800-1849Byron to Augusta Leigh, 6 November 1816: ' ... by the way Ada [his daughter]'s name is the same with that of the Sister of Charlemagne -- as I read the other day in a boo...George Gordon Lord Byron unknown"book treating of the Rhine"Print: Book
1800-1849'Charles Shaw's dependance upon a small Sunday school library in Tunstall [...] imparted a magnificent if involuntary scope to his education: '"I read "Robinson Crusoe...Charles Shaw "boys' books"Print: Book
1900-1945'Thank you very much for your letter and the pamphlet in which I was very much interested.' Joseph Conrad David John Nicoll"Commonweal": The Greenwich MysteryPrint: Pamphlet, Serial / periodical
1700-1799[Dorothy, Lady Bradshaigh to Samuel Richardson, on reading 'confessions,' 16 December 1749:] 'I have read many of them over, and have been so puzzled, that I knew not ...Dorothy Lady Bradshaigh "Confessions"Print: Unknown
1850-1899
1900-1945		Leon Edel notes, regarding Henry James's letter to James B. Pinker of 14 October 1907: 'The eminent actor Johnston Forbes-Robertson read H[enry]J[ames]'s story "Covering...Johnston Forbes-Robertson Henry James"Covering End"Print: Book
1850-1899Henry James to William James, 9 April 1873: "Your letter was full of points of great interest. Your criticism on Middlemarch was excellent and I have duly transcribed it...Henry James William James"criticism of Middlemarch"Manuscript: Letter
1850-1899'Fraulein Assing, Varnhagen's niece, lent me a volume of Heine's poems. I read aloud "Donna Clara" and then Wilhelm Meister till 10'.George Eliot [pseud] Heinrich Heine"Donna Clara"Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'By the way, we all admire _very greatly_ your beautiful little poem in the Boston Book. I dare say you don't care for the opinion of we three "weaker vessels" [i.e....Florence De Quincey Nathaniel Hawthorne"Drowne's Wooden Image" in The Boston Book, being ...Print: Book
1850-1899Henry James to Sarah Butler Wister, 23 January 1875: " ... I have had nothing since my return to town that is worth your hearing of. I have seen a certain number of ordi...Henry James unknown"dullish books"Print: Book
1800-1849William Wordsworth to Felicia Hemans, September 1834, praising her verse collection "Scenes and Hymns", of which he was the dedicatee: 'This morning I have read the stanz...William Wordsworth Felicia Hemans"Elysium"Print: Book
1850-1899Harriet Martineau on the inspirations for her project of translating Comte: 'I obtained something like a clear preparatory view, at second-hand, from a friend [...] What ...Harriet Martineau Littre"epitome" (relating to Auguste Comte)Print: Unknown
1900-1945After Thomas Hardy's death on 11 January 1928, his literary executor Sydney Cockerell 'found a piece of paper on which Hardy had copied out "Fin de Fete" [by Charlotte Me...Thomas Hardy Charlotte Mew"Fin de Fete"Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'By the way, we all admire _very greatly_ your beautiful little poem in the Boston Book. I dare say you don't care for the opinion of we three "weaker vessels" [i.e....Florence De Quincey Henry W. Longfellow"Footprints of Angels" in The Boston Book, being S...Print: Book
1850-1899Henry James to Henry James Sr., 29 May 1878: " ... Sir Charles Dilke ... appears to have found time ... to read and be 'struck' by my French essays." Sir Charles Dilke Henry James"French essays"Print: Unknown
1850-1899'I read your “Giotto”; it’s almighty well written, I don’t know how the devil you can write like that.' Robert Louis Stevenson Sidney Colvin"Giotto's Gospel of Labour"Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'every day Spike Mays ran to his East Anglia school, where he studied "Robinson Crusoe", "Gulliver's Travels" and "Tales from Shakespeare".'Spike Mays Jonathan Swift"Gulliver's Travels"Print: Book
1800-1849Harriet Martineau on reading for research toward her series of 'Tales', during 1832: 'The scenery was furnished by books of travel obtained from the Public Library [...] ...Harriet Martineau McCulloch"Highlands and Islands of Scotland"Print: Book
1850-1899'Finished reading the four last volumes of the "Histoire des Ordres Religieux". Began "La Beata", a story of Florentine life by T.A. Trollope. I am also reading Sachetti'...George Eliot [pseud.] Henri Marc-Bonnet"Histoire des Ordres Religieux"Print: Book
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1600-1699		'The marginalia [dating from late 1570s-c.1608] on fol.3v [of Lodovico Domenichi, "Facetie, motti et burle, di diversi signori et persone private" (1571)] record Eutrapel...Gabriel Harvey Theocritus "Idyll I"Print: Book


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